The moon is new at 26.35 degrees of Libra at 3:12 PM today (Thursday, Oct. 19)

Ah, Libra, the sign of balance and relationships. The sign of beauty, harmony, and love. The sign of justice and peace. The sign of decisions, either-or, both-and. Perhaps the biggest criticism of Libras is that they contradict themselves. A Libra can make her way around a cocktail party, speaking first to a person who thinks every state should make its own laws, next to a person who thinks the federal government should have a more robust welfare program, and third to a person who thinks the free market will take care of everything, and agree with every single one of them. It's just that they all make such good points. Libra is on the side of fairness, but that requires seeing all sides of the situation. Creating actual justice isn't easy. It almost never happens peacefully. As the only sign of the zodiac that's represented by an inanimate object, I think Libra is at a bit of a disadvantage. After all, a Libra person is not a set of objective scales. She's a human being, and that makes her complex, unpredictable at times, even downright paradoxical. Maybe that's one reason why Libra, ruled by Venus, is associated with the arts. Part of an artist's job is to reveal the complexity of life.

Artists aren't the only people with inherent contradictions, of course. We all have them. Do you crave emotional intimacy but hold people at an arm's length? You consider yourself a private person, but you'll write a revealing personal blog post and publish it for strangers to read? Your friends see you as an ebullient, extroverted people person, but you're also an introvert who requires solitude to recharge? Welcome to life on Earth! Where nothing is ever what it seems. Every person you know is a walking paradox.

This new moon may bring your own little contradictions to life. It's directly opposing Uranus, the planet of total unpredictability. I can't tell you exactly what this new moon will bring for you, but I can say it will be a surprise. Maybe a fresh start. Maybe someone in your life drops a metaphorical bomb. Maybe it's a confusing turn of events with a meaning that won't become clear until later. Maybe a fantastic new idea. Whatever it is, you may find that you have conflicting emotions about it, or perhaps someone else in your life is driving you a little nuts with their personal contradictions. With Jupiter newly in Scorpio and conjunct Mercury, the truth may come into play. What's the truth about your personal paradox? Whatever your personal contradictions are, they're probably the truest, most authentic parts of you. And that's a paradox in itself.

The first three days after a new moon are a good time for setting intentions and initiating projects, with or without a ritual involved. As this is a Libra moon, it's especially good for intentions around relationships, art, justice, and decision making. It's a good moon for recognizing the complexity of all people and all situations. It's a good moon for accepting that the truth is rarely simple, and choosing to live with integrity even though it's difficult.

As with all new and full moons, how closely this moon aspects your chart will determine how important it is for you. If you want to know which moons matter the most for you personally, get my 13 Moons Report. It tells you how the lunar cycles will affect you for the next year.

What is this Libra moon cycle bringing up for you? Feel free to share in the comments below!

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Bustle quoted me again, this time in an article about how to tell if someone with air sign placements is crushing on you. Link in bio!⠀
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"In order for an air sign to really start crushing on you, they'll need to connect with you on an intellectual level first. "Good conversation is essential to them," Goss says. So they may ask for your opinion on things like politics, pop culture, or anything that's worth talking about. According to Goss, air signs are the most driven by the exchange of ideas. "This lets them show off their natural intelligence and cleverness," she says. "They also do it because they really want to get to know you."⠀
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Image Credit: Andrew Zaeh for Bustle.⠀
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Just for fun! I was featured in Bustle's article on earth signs. Want to know if a Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn is crushing on you? Link in bio.⠀
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'"Earth signs deal with the realm of the material, so someone with earth sign placements is likely to show romantic interest in material and practical ways," Goss says. They may show their interested through physical touch. For instance, they may place their hand on your arm when you're touching or stay close when you're walking together.'⠀
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Mercury enters Taurus today, where he slows down and contemplates before speaking, if he speaks at all. Mercury here is more about doing: growing things, building things, and expressing oneself through the manifestation of effort. Actions speak louder than words now. Mercury meets Uranus, sometimes called the higher octave of Mercury, in this sign (exact May 8th). Again, those themes of rewilding, radical pleasure, and the economy come to the forefront. What are you doing to rewild?⠀
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Read the Taurus new moon lunar letter & subscribe for more! Link in bio.⠀
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Some of that knowing comes through your nightdreams. Some of it comes through your daydreams: those visions of your future self that you just know are going to be real. You know it in your bones. If you tried to explain the embodied knowledge of your daydream self to someone else, that person might think you were talking about a wish, not a knowing. But if your body knows that something is true, you have to trust that. You don't have to tell anyone about it, and in fact it might feel safer not to. Let them be mystified. Go with your gut. Trust your bones.⠀
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It's Beltane and I'm taking the day to do some non-business-related activities: reading, writing poetry, planting, and candle-making. I don't think about having a "balance" between "work" and "life" because so much of my work now is a joy, and I'm grateful for that. I think instead about the wheel of my life: business, creative play, health, home, relationships, spirituality...and how much attention everything is getting. Is every plant in the garden of my life getting water and sunlight? Some need more than others at different times.
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In reading Team Human, I'm confronting my complicity with algorithmic systems like Instagram, designed to capture attention, persuade us to purchase, extract data, and keep us hungry for more. It's a sick system that I have chosen to avoid as much as possible in my personal life. The conundrum is in running a business when social media has become the marketplace. I am also here to persuade, but I am more interested in commerce, in running a sustainable business, than I am in constant growth. I want to reach those who are ready to awaken their consciousness with astrology and coaching so I can help them recover their own power and transcend this exploitative game. And I'm on here because I have to meet you where you are. Maybe my way of being a spoilsport is to invite you to read long book passages on a photo app, and to make those book passages about breaking the system?
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Oh, and btw, I got this from the public library. It's great; it's like an IRL internet where you can access all kinds of knowledge for free, except the information is much more likely to be accurate. + NO ADS.
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Read Team Human. Find the Others.
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Saturn stations retrograde at 21 degrees of Capricorn today. Just like every year, this retrograde lasts about 4 ½ months. Saturn will station direct at 14 degrees of Capricorn on September 18th. If you have personal planets between 14-21 degrees of Cardinal signs, you’re getting another taste of this salty Saturn transit this summer. This is yet another opportunity to reflect on your relationship to responsibility. What do you expect to reap, based on what you’ve sown so far? Are any of your actions out of alignment with your sense of integrity? Recognize real limitations and either work within them or work hard to push beyond them in responsible ways.⠀
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Image: Zodiac symbols painted Relief on the terrace of a Gopuram at Kanipakam Lord Shiva temple, via Wikimedia Commons⠀
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Happy to hear this feedback from my client Desiree, after her Story of You Consultation last week!⠀
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Have you ever reached that point when you were so clear on what you had to do that the fear dropped away?⠀
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Fear has no chance when our minds are made up. Fear loosens its grip on us when we have clarity about what must be done.⠀
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Clarity has that power. It diminishes fear the way light chases away the darkness.⠀
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What do you know is right? What do you know you have to do? What difference do you know you can make, right now, today? ⠀
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I was trying to do work @cocoagrinder but then I found this Mysteries of the Unknown series that Time-Life published in the 80s so nevermind.
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As the moon waxed to total fullness last night, I was in a room full of amazing women talking about equal pay with @ladiesgetpaid & @hiredinc. I went to this event to watch a microdocumentary about the gender pay gap, and listen to a panel of successful women talk about how we can close it. I heard stories from women who found out that they were making as much as $80,000 less than their male coworkers for doing the same job. And by the way, it's not because women don't negotiate. We do; we just don't get the salaries we ask for. We need to continue to ask for the money we deserve. We need to do research to find out what other people are being paid for the same jobs and experience, we need more pay transparency, and we need to hold companies accountable for compensation equality. There are a lot of things people say to make this issue seem more complicated, about women leaving work to have kids, or being overrepresented in underpaid jobs like teaching. But it's not really a complicated issue. It's simple discrimination. And the simple answer would be to value women and the work that women do the way we value the contributions of men. And pay us all equally. Now. This is what the higher potential of Uranus in Taurus represents to me: changing the economy. Knowing our worth. Rising up and demanding what we deserve. ⠀
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More on this + the Libra full moon in the Lunar Letter. Read & subscribe thru the link in my bio!⠀
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